ITV1's soap spin-off Corrie Goes To Kenya drew fewer than 2 million viewers on Friday night as it found itself up against the seventh EastEnders episode of the week.

Corrie Goes To Kenya, in which some of the stars of the soap went to Kenya to work with an HIV and drug abuse charity, had 1.9 million viewers, an 8.9% share, between 9pm and 10pm on Friday.

The ITV1 documentary predictably lost out to its Albert Square rival, which rounded off a week of episodes to mark the return of Sharon to the square with 6.9 million viewers, 31.7% of the audience between 9pm and 9.30pm.

It was also up against BBC1's returning sitcom, In With The Flynns, starring Will Mellor and Warren Clarke, which began its second series with 3.2 million viewers (15.8%) between 9.30pm and 10pm.

Elsewhere at 9pm, Channel 4 played host to Alan Carr's Summer Spectacular 2, which had 1.3 million viewers (7%) between 9pm and 11.05pm – part of the network's Funny Fortnight of comedy programming.

The Carr show lost out to Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother, which had 1.8 million viewers (8.7%) between 9pm and 10pm, and the Celebrity Big Brother: Live Nominations show, with 1.9 million viewers (10.1%) between 10pm and 10.30pm.

Another showing for film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas on BBC2 had 1.8 million viewers, a 9% share, between 9pm and 10.30pm.

Peter Kay: still a ratings winner

Funny Fortnight got off to a cracking start on Thursday night, with Peter Kay Live: the Tour That Didn't Tour – Tour giving Channel 4 a rare ratings victory in the 9pm slot, averaging 4.1 million viewers and a 19.8% share over nearly two hours.

BBC2's Paralympics drama, The Best of Men, also rated well, averaging 3.2 million viewers and a 14.4% share over 90 minutes from 9pm, including 200,000 and 0.9% on BBC HD.

All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC and some other channels including Sky1) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated. Figures for BBC1, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 generally include ratings for their HD simulcast services, unless otherwise stated

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